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Python 3 Script to Delete All Empty Folders in a Directory Using OS Module on Terminal
Jun 1, 2025
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uh hello guys welcome to this video so
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in this video I will show you a Python
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script which will automatically delete
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empty folders from any sort of directory
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or any sort of path so empty folders can
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be a very tedious task because they can
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be just be consuming space without um it
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will be very frustrating process so this
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Python script will automatically scan
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your directory and delete those empty
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folders which are there let me walk you
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through the Python script for this we
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are using the operating system module
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and then we specify the folder name
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which you are targeting you just need to
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give the name of the folder or the full
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path after that we simply get the total
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number of folders which are there in
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this directory so using operating system
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walk method we use this and pass the
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root location and then we simply say one
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colon and this will give you a total
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number of folders which are there inside
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this after that we loop through each
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folder and like this and basically we
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print the content of each folder and if
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the folder is empty then we delete simp
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delete that folder very simple very
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simple
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logic and
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uh this is the condition right here a
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folder
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two so if the folder is empty we simply
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call the remove directory function of
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Python in the operating system module we
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give the folder name that's
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all so now if you run this uh if you put
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dot here this will treat the current
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working directory the root directory it
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will scan for all the empty folders
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which are there
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so as you can see in this there is one
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empty folder right here which is this
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folder it doesn't contain anything if I
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try to execute this script
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here first of all I have given the
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script in the description of the
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video so let me just run this app
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27 so you will see it will
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delete all these empty
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folders so this is actually the script
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uh you can do this very easily inside
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